Concerning the nations
Subtitle: essays on the oracles against the nations in Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel
By: edited by Else K. Holt, Hyun Chul Paul Kim, and Andrew Mein
Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 612; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- 612.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury; T&T Clark
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780567660060; 9780567660077
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Prophecies; Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Nationalism; Biblical teaching
Description: These chapters together present the most up-to-date scholarship on the oracles - an oft-neglected but significant area in the study of the prophetic literature. The particular characteristics of Isaiah, Jeremiah (both Masoretic Text and Septuagint versions), and Ezekiel, are discussed showcasing the unique issues pertinent to each book and the diverse methods used to address them. These evident differences aside, the Oracles Against the Nations are employed as a springboard in order to begin the work of tracing similarities between the texts. By focusing on these unique yet common sections, a range of interrelated themes and issues of both content and method become noticeable: for example, though not exhaustively, pattern, structure, language, comparative history, archaeology, sociology, politics, literature, imagery, theme, theology, and hermeneutical issues related to today's context. As a result this collection presents a range of cutting-edge approaches on these key prophetic books, and will provide a basis for further comparative study and reflection.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-263) and indexes.

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Table of contents: title: The oracles concerning the nations in the prophetic literature  -- Marvin A. Sweeney; title: Isaiah 22 : a crux or a clue in Isaiah 13-23?  -- Hyun Chul Paul Kim; title: Evoking and evading : the poetic presentation of the Moabite catastrophe in Isaiah 15-16  -- J. Blake Couey; title: Isaiah 19:18 : a textual variant in light of the temple of Onias in Egypt  -- J. Todd Hibbard; title: Common and different phrases for Babylon's fall and its aftermath in Isaiah 13-14 and Jeremiah 50-51  -- Willem A.M. Beuken; title: Babylon as Judah's Doppelgänger : the identity of opposites in the book of Jeremiah (MT)  -- Rannfrid Thelle; title: Embodying Moab : the figuring of Moab in Jeremiah 48 as reinscription of the Judean body  -- Carolyn J. Sharp; title: "As she did, do to her!" : Jeremiah's OAN as revenge fantasies  -- Amy Kalmanofsky; title: Jeremiah, Sade, and repetition as counterpleasure in the oracle against Edom  -- Rhiannon Graybill; title: Postcolonialism and propaganda in Jeremiah's oracles against the nations  -- Hugh S. Pyper; title: YHWH and the kings of Middle Earth : royal polemic in Ezekiel's oracles against the nations  -- Madhavi Nevader; title: In defense of the great king : Ezekiel's oracles against Tyre  -- John T. Strong; title: A serpent in the Nile : Egypt in the book of Ezekiel  -- Corrine L. Carvalho; title: After the nation : reading oracles against the nations amidst the fragmenting of the nation-state -- Steed Vernyl Davidson.